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kobvindex_INTEBC1693153
Umfang:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781780232263
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Tombs of The Great Leaders: A Contemporary Guide -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Enduring Signification: Mounds, Monuments and Mausolea -- Stone Age Burials -- Bronze Age Elite Tombs -- Hellenistic Eclecticism and the Invention of the Mausoleum -- Roman Imperial Tombs -- Royal Burials of Christian Monarchs in the Middle Ages -- The Impact of the French Revolution -- Napoleon's Tomb -- Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois -- 2. Safeguarding the Immortality of Revolutionary Leaders: Mausolea in Communist Countries -- Lenin's Tomb -- The Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh -- Mao Zedong Memorial Hall -- Kumsusan Memorial Hall, 'The Sacred Temple of Juche' -- Destroyed Communist Mausolea -- 3. Fantasy and Reality: The Burial Places of Fascist Leaders -- Mussolini's Crypt in Predappio -- Franco and the Righteous Fallen in Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos -- 4. New Nations, New Monuments: Mausolea for Fathers of the Nation -- Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum (Lingmu) on Purple Mountain -- Anıtkabir: The Memorial Tomb of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -- Mazar-e-Quaid-e-Azam, 'The Mausoleum of the Great Leader', Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi -- The Mausoleum of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka -- 5. Not the Final Resting Place: Temporary Mausolea -- Chiang Kai-shek at Chihu, Taiwan -- Yasser Arafat at Ramallah -- 6. Appropriated Traditions -- Sukarno and Suharto in Java -- The Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran -- 7. Political Mausolea in Africa -- North African Mausolea -- Sub-Saharan Mausolea -- Dr Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park in Accra -- The Mausoleum of M'zee Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Kinshasa -- The Mausoleum of Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Lilongwe, Malawi -- The Tomb of Dr John Garang de Mabior, Juba, South Sudan -- Reinventing the Political Tomb in Africa -- References -- Chronological List of Tombs and Mausolea -- Bibliographies
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Acknowledgements -- Illustration Acknowledgements -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Leick, Gwendolyn Tombs of the Great Leaders London : Reaktion Books, Limited,c2014 ISBN 9781780232003
Sprache:
Englisch
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